A damn fine racer. If Jet Moto 2 was a top-to-bottom improvement over the first entry, then this one takes those improvements and amplifies them by a degree of about 1,000. Gone is ramming into every wall within eyeshot every .05 nanoseconds, now you can - and are encouraged to - ride ON them (took them long enough to finally implement this feature into a hoverbike racing game). The graphics no longer look like hallway floor vomit, instead here they're bright and much cleaner. The difficulty is actually semi-fair, and the course design is at an all-time best for the series (Khumbu Ice Falls, Volcano Island, Urban Subway, Shipwreck Cove, Devil's Canyon - I particularly love that a futuristic themed game takes advantage of so many different locations that aren't just the same sci-fi-esque metal backgrounds [the Sequoia Forest level still kind of sucks though, unfortunately]). It even has primitive analog support. But most noticeably the sense of speed here is just jaw-dropping, in its best moments reminiscent - though never quite reaching the blistering heights - of Kinetica. It doesn't escape all the flaws the series has dealt with up to this point, but it's a shame it was canned right when it was starting to find its groove. Though to put it frankly, these dead-eyed FMV characters/videos are horrifying.